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Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer
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To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.
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Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
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Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
Albert Schweitzer
Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.
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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.
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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
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The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
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God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.
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The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
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I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
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We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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